Shortly after a new ceasefire in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus went into effect Monday, Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating the agreement.
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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry in Baku reported on Monday that his soldiers had been shot at in the village of Safijan. The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have denied this. The Armenian Ministry of Defense in Yerevan accused Baku of targeted “disinformation”.
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Azerbaijani forces have resumed artillery shelling against Nagorno-Karabakh 45 minutes after the ceasefire took effect, a defense ministry spokeswoman in Yerevan said. The new attempt at a humanitarian ceasefire had been negotiated through the United States.
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Since the conflict between the two ex-Soviet republics flared up in late September, there have been many casualties on both sides. Previous ceasefire agreements that were made under the supervision of Moscow did not last.
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Azerbaijan lost control of the mountainous region of about 145,000 inhabitants in a war after the collapse of the Soviet Union about thirty years ago. Since 1994, there has been a vulnerable ceasefire. Azerbaijan relies on its “brother state” of Turkey in the conflict. Russia, in turn, is Armenia’s protective power.
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